Casey’s Emergency Recovery Fund
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Casey needs the support of friends, family and the community now more than ever. Those of you that know Casey know she’s a natural caregiver. She’s the first one to offer to watch your kids or pets, teach art classes, try to save you money, cook for you, offer her couch if you need a place to stay, and just help in any way she is able. What you may not know is that Casey has independently supported herself through her art and organizational design the last number of years.
In efforts to compete a large subscription order for a customer, Casey put off the treatment of what she thought was a minor muscle injury for as long as she could. After two mishandled urgent care visits and two following ER visits, it was finally determined she actually had necrosis fasciitis cellulitis, a rare flesh eating bacteria that effects just .4 per 100,000 (~1300!) people per year in the country. This had spread for 96 hours, putting her body into sepsis shock. She was immediately rushed into surgery to remove as much of the infected area as possible, and began multiple IV treatments to fight off the sepsis. Two follow up surgeries to clean more of the wound left her in critical care and on a ventilator in ICU for a number of days with a very real potential loss of life because of the delay. Doctors say had she waited another hour she would have died at home.
If you’ve followed her story you know that Casey has fought off the infection and is on the heal, but has been left with a seven inch deep wound as big as her fist. Doctors suggest this will take 6-8 months to fully recover. A fourth surgery, or ostomy, was necessary and placed a stoma in her abdomen. Many rounds of physical therapy, round-the-clock wound care, follow up visits with plastic surgeons, and potential reconstructive surgeries including reversing the ostomy will be necessary for the healing process. After almost two weeks in the hospital she is just beginning to stand and take a step or two.
Because Casey was uninsured and with current Covid procedures, she will be released from the hospital soon and coming home to recover with the coordination of home health nurses and her family and friends to help. While she’ll love being home it presents new challenges. A charity has provided the wound vac that will be largely responsible for keeping the wound clean and aiding in the healing process. But it needing to being constantly attached, along with the ostomy bag, and other general mobility issues that will come with recovery, she will not be able to fully manufacture her art and work to support herself as she independently has for some time.
Casey has made many places home over the years but truly loves the Austin community she’s most recently become part of. Any monetary contributions will go toward keeping her rent and utilities clear for the upcoming months so she can focus on recovery first. Please send Casey lots of love and healing energy, and consider sharing this fundraiser. Thank you!
In efforts to compete a large subscription order for a customer, Casey put off the treatment of what she thought was a minor muscle injury for as long as she could. After two mishandled urgent care visits and two following ER visits, it was finally determined she actually had necrosis fasciitis cellulitis, a rare flesh eating bacteria that effects just .4 per 100,000 (~1300!) people per year in the country. This had spread for 96 hours, putting her body into sepsis shock. She was immediately rushed into surgery to remove as much of the infected area as possible, and began multiple IV treatments to fight off the sepsis. Two follow up surgeries to clean more of the wound left her in critical care and on a ventilator in ICU for a number of days with a very real potential loss of life because of the delay. Doctors say had she waited another hour she would have died at home.
If you’ve followed her story you know that Casey has fought off the infection and is on the heal, but has been left with a seven inch deep wound as big as her fist. Doctors suggest this will take 6-8 months to fully recover. A fourth surgery, or ostomy, was necessary and placed a stoma in her abdomen. Many rounds of physical therapy, round-the-clock wound care, follow up visits with plastic surgeons, and potential reconstructive surgeries including reversing the ostomy will be necessary for the healing process. After almost two weeks in the hospital she is just beginning to stand and take a step or two.
Because Casey was uninsured and with current Covid procedures, she will be released from the hospital soon and coming home to recover with the coordination of home health nurses and her family and friends to help. While she’ll love being home it presents new challenges. A charity has provided the wound vac that will be largely responsible for keeping the wound clean and aiding in the healing process. But it needing to being constantly attached, along with the ostomy bag, and other general mobility issues that will come with recovery, she will not be able to fully manufacture her art and work to support herself as she independently has for some time.
Casey has made many places home over the years but truly loves the Austin community she’s most recently become part of. Any monetary contributions will go toward keeping her rent and utilities clear for the upcoming months so she can focus on recovery first. Please send Casey lots of love and healing energy, and consider sharing this fundraiser. Thank you!
Organizer and beneficiary
Brian Janowski
Organizer
Austin, TX
Casey Janowski
Beneficiary